Victoria Hills announced she was stepping down as OPDC chief executive on Monday (January 8) (Image: Old Oak and Park Royal Development Company)

Ms Hills, who will be leaving the OPDC to become chief executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute, said: “It has been my great privilege to have had the opportunity to establish a new Mayoral Development Corporation and to lead an enthusiastic and skilled team with whom I have been able to create a vision and framework for delivering this enormously complex project."

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"I shall be watching the development of Old Oak and Park Royal with interest and huge affection and I wish the team and my successor well in their future endeavours," she added.

The Oaklands site will provide 600 new homes (Image: FortyShillings)

The news comes less than a week after two of the project's developers, Queen's Park Rangers football club and Genesis Housing Association, announced they had awarded a £155m pound contract to Galliford Try Partnerships to build the first 600 new homes on the site at Old Oak Common.